Wish List Another Beginning

[Steve Lamb]

Thursday, December 16, 1999, 4:22:59 AM, John wrote:
> It's pretty nice, and reasonably fast on a decently-powered machine
> (PII-350 w/ 128MB) but I still miss a lot from PMMAIL.

    *sputter*  "Decently powered" is a PII-350!?!?  Oh man.  The server this
list is run on is running a P5-100 w/64Mb RAM.  My main machine was a K6-200
w/64Mb of RAM until I upgraded to a Celeron-400 w/128Mb.  Know why I upgraded?
Was it because my email was slow?  Nope.  Quicken98 was hating life?  Nope.
Because Star Office was dogging it?  Nope.  Why, oh why, then, would I scorn
my beloved AMD for a faster Intel chip?

    Half-Life was running to slow.  A game.

    I personally feel that anything higher than the Pentium class machine is
not needed for any sort of productivity application, including email.  A
PII-350, therefore, isn't "decently powered", it is "overly powered".

    *grumble, grumble*  Still remember doing off-line QWK mail on an 8086
w/640k.  *mumble, grumble*

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